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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Run'n'Gun," what causes the speaker's older brother's game to deteriorate?
(a) He develops a substance use disorder.
(b) He develops a chronic injury.
(c) He gets more involved with his job and adult responsibilities.
(d) He starts spending more time with his girlfriend.

2. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what is the red light metaphorically compared to?
(a) A headache.
(b) A traffic accident.
(c) Wind.
(d) Fabric.

3. What does the opening of "Postcolonial Love Poem" claim that moonstones can do?
(a) Stop the bleeding of a snakebite.
(b) Make someone fall in love with you.
(c) Predict the weather.
(d) Help you find your way home.

4. In "Ink-Light," the speaker mentions "the ramus" of which of the beloved's body parts?
(a) Eye.
(b) Thigh.
(c) Jaw.
(d) Stomach.

5. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," what kind of person does the speaker want to love her?
(a) Someone who understands her.
(b) Someone who is not American.
(c) Someone long dead.
(d) Someone white.

6. What technique is used in the "American Arithmetic" lines, "I do not remember the days before America--/ I do not remember the days when we were all here" (17)?
(a) Antithesis.
(b) Hyperbaton.
(c) Antimetabole.
(d) Anaphora.

7. In the page 27 lines from "Asterion's Lament," "Let me be your tender captain, ferry/ the ultramarine thread you unraveled"" what literary technique is being employed?
(a) Epistrophe.
(b) Double entente.
(c) Apologia.
(d) Alliteration.

8. In "Skin-Light," the speaker refers to "violet, biliruben/ bloom." What is she describing?
(a) Painting.
(b) Stones.
(c) Bruises.
(d) Flowers.

9. In "Ink-Light," what technique is employed in the line, "I touch her with the eyes of my skin" (34)?
(a) Synesthesia.
(b) Meiosis.
(c) Synechdoche.
(d) Oxymoron.

10. What vehicle is mentioned in the opening of "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word"?
(a) Taxi.
(b) Subway train.
(c) Airplane.
(d) Ambulance.

11. In "Wolf OR-7," what state has the solitary wolf "OR-7" entered?
(a) Washington.
(b) Colorado.
(c) Oregon.
(d) California.

12. In "Like Church," what word is repeated with a different meaning to imply that the speaker is a kind of captive in her relationship?
(a) Cage.
(b) Bars.
(c) Time.
(d) Judge.

13. In "Like Church," what does the speaker compare her relationship with the church to?
(a) America's history of oppression.
(b) Her intimate relationship with a White lover.
(c) The work required to tend a garden successfully.
(d) Her relationship with her family.

14. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," what is being referred to by the phrase "these two potters" (7)?
(a) Prometheus and Hecatonchire.
(b) The speaker and the beloved.
(c) The Mojave gods who created humans.
(d) The speaker's hands.

15. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the speaker makes a reference to the "hundred-handed ones." Who were these figures?
(a) The giant offspring of Sky and Earth.
(b) The ancient potters who created human beings.
(c) The wise women who control fate.
(d) The monsters that guard the gates of the underworld.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Asterion's Lament," the speaker talks about "the slake of a monster's appetite" (28). What does "slake" mean in this context?

2. In "Run'n'Gun," what is a logical interpretation of the symbolic value of the fence outside the schoolyard?

3. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the speaker refers to "Atman." Which idea is this Hindu concept related most closely to?

4. In "Blood-Light," what does the speaker say the story is about?

5. In "Postcolonial Love Poem," the speaker mentions a "cabochon." What is a cabochon?

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